Woven Horsehair Panelling

Along with its shimmering patina and hard-wearing texture, woven horsehair fabric has a natural acoustic transparency that makes it ideal for lining the walls of media rooms, home cinemas and sound studios.

Through our own research and experimentation, we’ve developed a specific upholstery technique that brings out the best in these unique qualities.

It means we can create bespoke upholstered wall panelling to hide speakers without any loss of sound quality, and cover sound absorption panels that offset noise reflected by hard surfaces or amplified by open-plan rooms.

Despite being ideally suited to these modern applications, woven horsehair has been used in upholstery for centuries.

Some of the earliest examples date back to the 1800s at Castle Cary, Somerset, where it was traditionally the custom to crop the tails of working horses. The hair would have been collected and washed, before being woven into high-quality fabric used by some of the most renowned furniture makers of the time.

We source all our horsehair cloth from John Boyd Textiles, who still work from their original mill at Castle Cary. It’s one of the last manufacturers in the world using looms and techniques from the 1870s.

Learn more about our acoustic woven horsehair panelling here.